Why should misogyny be made a crime?

HAVING read the piece concerning misogyny and making a case for it to become a criminal offence (M.E.N.,

August 10), I would like to make a few comments about the need to make it a hate crime according to 20-year-old Sylvia Pope, who is campaigning for this.

Misogyny means a hatred of females and misandry means a hatred of males. Both hatreds exist and always have, so why make only misogyny a hate crime when in a society constantly pushing for equality we find a young lady who seems not to have actually taken this into the equation?

A YouGov survey of women has shown 85 per cent of 18 to 25-yearolds experienced unwanted sexual touching. 95pc of women I asked have never heard of YouGov. There are lies, damned lies and, even worse, statistics.

This young lady said: “We are not blaming all men, we are blaming a culture which has allowed everyday sexism against women to permeate its way through our society.”

Whose culture is that, as she does not say?

She goes on to say ‘we are not trying to criminalise men for wolfwhistling on the street.’ What?

If a person, be it man or woman, gropes someone – be they gay on straight, woman on man or man on woman, I fail to see where hate comes in.

Lust? Fun? Drunk? Stupid? Yes, all of those, but hate?

How long will court time and police investigating time be taken up on this fools errand?

I myself have been groped in pubs and clubs by women and knew they were having fun.

Interactions between men and women, straight and gay, are as old as the hills and she wants to change humanity?

If misogyny is made a specific hate crime, then so should misandry as well – all things being equal.

David Winterbottom, Oldham